Salt-shaker.



- PATENTED MAY 19, 1908.

A. GOHENGIUS. Y

SALT SHAKER.

APPLIOATION FILED AUG. 6. 190?.

' Inventor I Q 4a lgdh I 1 fikm Attorneys.

Vim esses similar view with thevalve open.

UhlllED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ABRAHAM oonnnoros, or NEW YORK, N. Y.

SALT-SHAKER.

No. esaoee.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Ma 19, 1908.

Application filed August 6, 1967. Serial No. 387,255.

T all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ABRAHAM COHENOIUS, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the borough of Manhattan, city, county,

' and State of New York, have invented an Improvement in Salt-Shakers, of which the following is a specification.

The object I have in view is the production of a device for holding salt, pepper,.sugar or other comestible or other material in pulverized or powdered form, and which has openings through which the material is shaken out, there being means to prevent the entrance of moisture and dust and the escape of the aromatic or other desirable properties of .the contents; such openings being closed by mechanism which automatically opens them when the shaker is used and closes them when not n use. I attain this object by the device illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l is a vertical section of a salt shaker showing the valve closed. Fig.v 2 is a Fig. 3 is an enlarged top plan view of the operating palts; and Fig. 4 is a detail sectional view, on an enlarged scale, of the lower portion of the operating mechanism.

In all of the views like parts are designated ,by the samefreference characters.

I disclose my invention as embodied in a salt shaker, but it is to be understood that it may be used in connection with any device containing granulated or pulverized material which is to be shaken through a perforated wall of the device.

My invention may be used in connection with devices for'containing flour, sugar and various granulated and powdered materials used in the arts and sciences.

In the drawings the body 1 of the shaker is shown of the usual form and is made of glass, although any form may be used and any material may be employed. The cover i 2 is made of any suitable material, suchas metal or celluloid, and is provided with the openings or perforations 3, whereby a Wall of the body will contain dischar e openings. The cover 2 is shown'as secure( to the body by screw-threads so that it may be removed, but it is not essential to make it so removable, or if it is desired, it may be attached to the body in a different manner from that shown. The perforations 3 are arranged in annular form in the cover 2, but the arrangement may bevaried if desired.

The perforations are adapted to be automatically closed by means of a valve 4, which is adapted by means of mechanism which will be described, to automatically close the perforations when the device is not in use, and automatically open them'when the device is being used. The valve is shown in the form of an annular member 5, of proper size, to close all of the perforations in the cover. Connected to the annular member isa cross member 6. This cross member is shown as arranged with its extremities connected to the lower face of the annular member 5. This is for the purpose of ermitting close contact of the annular member with the cover even if the center of'the latter is depressed, as is the case in many designs of salt shakers.

The valve is carried upon a rod 7, which is shown as extendin throughout the length of the body 1 and t rough an openingin the bottom of the latter, the lower end being secured. to a button 8. A spring 9 engaging between the button and the body 1 tends to open the valve; that is, to move itin such position that the erforations 3 are uncovered, The lengt of the rod 7 is such that when the shaker is not in use and is resting upon its support 10.,the engagement of the button with such support wil raise the valve and close it; that s, will close the perforations 3, by the engagement of the annular member of the valve with the lower side of the cover.

For-the purpose of reventing escape of the contents of the body through the opening, through which asses the rod 7,-and also for the urpose o 'guidlng such rod and limiting t e extent of movement of the valve, I provide a tube 11 within the body and surroundin the -rod. This tube is shown as made 0 glass soas not to. be acted upon by the contents of the shaker, but the material of which it is made is unessential. It is also shown as being made separatt from the body, but it is not necessary that it be so made. The means for connecting it to the body, as shown, consist of a collar 12, which closely engages with the lower end of the tube 11, and is provided with a flange which engages with the inside of the bottom of the body. The tube extends part Way into the collar, the rest of the length'of the collar being occupied by the upper end of a hollow washer 13, such washer being threaded .to engage with the collar and serving to tightly clamp the collar against the inside of the bottom of 45 cover, a spring for disengaging the valve f the body and produce, a tight joint there.

' the button and the other against thelower I -use,by the mere lifting up of the shaker, or

be Varied within wide limits, such details beforated cover, a valve within the bod en- The spring, asshown in Fig. 4,'- when the de- [patent statutes, I have described the principle of my invention, together with the ap- .have it understood that the apparatus vicels resting upon its su port, lies within thehollow washer, one en bearlng against end of thetube';

It will be apparent that in my device the perforations are in a wall of thebody, and are closed when the device is out of use, and are automatically opened when the device is in the reversing it so as to permit the discharge of its contents.

The details of construction described may in disclosed for the purpose of illustration.

hile Iclaim m invention as applied to a salt shaker, I desire it understood that by salt shaker mean any device of the same i general class which will include epper shakers, sugar and fiour'dusters, as wefi as all devices for shaking or dusting powdered or granulated material for every purpose.

In accordance with the provisions of the 4 paratus which I now consider to represent the best embodiment thereof, but I desire to shown is merely illustrative and that the in-.. vention can be carried out in other ways.

, Having nowdescribed-my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is: V

1. A salt shaker having a body and a per gaging with the perforation the said ,valve moving in a line toward and away from the from the perforation, and means actuated by the engagement of the body with its support for closing the valve.

2. -A salt shaker having a body and a perssaoee the said valve moving toward and away from the cover to close and open the perforation, operating means for the valve, such means extending through an opening in the body, and adaptedto engage with the support, and means actuated by the removal of the body fromits support for opening the valve.

- 3. 'Asalt' shaker which comprises a glass body'witha removable perforated cover, a valvewithin the body mounted to move toward and away fromjthe cover to close and open "the perforation therein, a stem on which the. valve "is mounted extending through a glass tube lying Within the body, the connectionbetween the body and tube comprising a collar which lies within the zbody and engages with the tube, and a holilow washer which passes through an opening in the body and engages with the collar, the stem of the valve passing through the hollow washer and carrying a-button on its other end, there being a spring between the button and the tube surrounding the stem and lying Within the hollow washer. I

4. A salt shaker which comprises a glass body, a removable perforated cover, a tube within the bodyfextending from thebottom to a point-below the cover, a valve Within the body mounted to move toward and away from'the cover to close and open the per-fora ticn'lthereih, a stem on which. the valve is mounted passing through the tilbe, the tube i being ada ted to engage with the valve when oj en, an limiting the extent ofopening of. t e valve, the free end of the stem extending Tthe stem, and a spring surrounding the stem, and adapted t to open thelilve and cause it to engage; with the free end of the tube, said stem-land. button, when the valve is fully open, ex-

tance e ual to that between the top ofthe tube an the underside of the cover.

This specification signed and witnessed thisseeond day of August, .1907. Y

ABRAHAM CGHENGIUS.

Witnesses LEoNAanH. DYER,

forated cover, with a valve Within the body,

JOHN L. Lorscn.

through the bottom of thebody, a button on exert stress in the direction tending below the bottom of the body a disl 

